September 2008

September 30, 2008

It is one of my favorite days of the year. Because a few years ago The Beautiful Bride was born. and that makes it a great day.

And like always we did something very special to celebrate this very special day. In the past we have gone to dinner, or painted pottery, or baked a cake.

Those things are all well and good, but today...we took the phrase "memorable birthday" to a whole new level.

This year we did something I would guess she will never forget. Because this year for her birthday, we gave The Beautiful Bride an "Extreme Home Makeover" as we turned her beautiful home into a vomitorium.

That's right this year, on The Beautiful Bride's birthday we hit the The Three Vomit Trifecta. All three girls sick at the same time. Maybe only a handful of times over the past three years have we hit the jackpot like this. But today...Shazaam...it was stomach funk galore here at the AtwoodZoo.

But instead of looking at this as a negative, I tried to focus on the positive. It was like one day-long surprise party. Because just when she least expected it, SURPRISE!!!! someone was tossing their cookies. Can't you see how this was a gift that just kept on giving?

So instead of cake and ice cream and dinner out, we had crackers and Immodium and loads and loads and loads and loads of laundry.

So on behalf of Suzie and Kenzo and Mabel we say Happy Birthday to The Beautiful Bride because there is no one we would rather have wipe the chunks out of our nose than you.

Thought this thing that Kurt Warner, QB of the Arizona Cardinals, does with his family is very cool.

Good Guy of the Week

Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner.

Karen Crouse of the New York Times wrote a good feature on Warner in Friday's paper, with a prescient story as the lead. Seems that Warner, wife, Brenda, and one or more of the Warner children have a practice the night before football games. They sit at their table in a restaurant, look over the dining room, and pick out one family. Warner then informs the wait staff that, anonymously, he'd like the dinner tab of that family of strangers added to his.

Crouse wrote the Warners have been doing this for several years "as a way of instilling in their children the joy of giving,'' and quoted Warner thusly: "We want our kids to grow up knowing that because of football we are so blessed.''

Just another reason why you can never say enough good things about Kurt Warner.